The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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“Enormous… an authoritative and anxious morality story.”—Chicago Tribune 

The definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.

On the top of WWI, historical past’s such a lot deadly influenza virus erupted in a military camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million other people all over the world. It killed extra other people in twenty-4 months than AIDS killed in twenty-4 years, extra in a yr than the Black Demise killed in a century. However this was once no longer the Center A while, and 1918 marked the primary collision of technological know-how and epidemic illness.
 
Magisterial in its breadth of point of view and intensity of analysis and now revised to replicate the rising threat of the avian flu, The Nice Influenza is in the long run a story of triumph amid tragedy, which gives us with an actual and sobering fashion as we confront the epidemics looming on our personal horizon. John M. Barry has written a brand new afterword for this variation that counsel tactics by which we would possibly head off some other flu pandemic.
Spanish Flu
1918